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Jurassic World Rebirth

Know what? Is this a movie that will wow you? No. Is it great? No. Is it memorable? Not really. Props that for most of the movie, while I can't say no one is an idiot, at the very least none of the characters act like they have a death wish and they usually behave like living is something they want to keep doing with some acts of daring bravery mixed in.

But it's okay. This is the definition of a movie that knew the assignment; have dinosaurs eat people.

Solid 5/10, I'll bump it up to a 6/10 for just being a movie that accepts what it is and doesn't pretend to pretensions of being anything else. In five years you'll be channel flipping bored out of your mind, see this movie on FX, shrug, and let it play. It'll do.

Sinners

Finally caught it on Max.

Fantastic movie. 10/10. Great period piece. Great vampire movie. It's like a modernized Dusk till Dawn and it's a good one! Solid movie I encourage it.

I've decided to stop watching bad movies and stick to better films.

Tonight I picked out the Academy Award Best Picture Winning, The Shape of Water to watch.

But first, I decided to watch a film from a few years ago that I thought had classic appeal.

In a world where senators bankroll their own campaigns with literal blood money and casually rewrite history to suit the polling data, it's refreshing to see a film that understands the true horror of unchecked campaign finance. This isn’t just a story about political corruption—it’s about the grotesque loopholes that let rich men buy time the same way they buy votes: recklessly and without conscience.

Immigration? That’s in there too. Not in speeches, but in subtext—the kind that quietly asks what happens when American power structures bend the rules of time itself, but still treat outsiders like expendable afterthoughts. The rich don’t just cross borders—they erase them. Meanwhile, honest cops get chewed up trying to hold a collapsing timeline together with a badge and a conscience.

Ron Silver is pitch-perfect as a greasy senator so corrupt he needs a temporal itinerary just to keep his lies straight. He smirks through legislation like it’s foreplay, and weaponizes time travel the way most politicians weaponize fear. He’s not acting—he’s warning us.

Mia Sara, playing the DC cop’s wife, does more with quiet grief and flickers of hope than most political thrillers manage with ten monologues. She’s the emotional gravity anchoring a plot that could otherwise spiral into nonsense.

And yes—there is a subplot involving Jean-Claude Van Damme and time travel. But that's just the hook. What this film really delivers is a brutal little parable about how money, power, and politics corrupt absolutely—especially when they can rewrite the past to guarantee their future.

The movie? Timecop. Of course.

Finished watching "The Siege of Jadotville"

Once you get past the utter weirdness that is Mark Strong with hair, it was a really good flick. Based on a true story, I definitely appreciated how the Irish comandant, and the FFL mercenary leader were played by dudes who actually have a passing resemblance to the person they're portraying.

Action sequences were, IMO, pretty well shot, the dialog and pacing was pretty good. All in all, a pretty good "original" offering by Netflix.

I Know What You Did Last Summer

So with the modern sequel/reboot baring down on us, felt it was time to give this series a whirl.

The first one is….dated. Not a patch on Scream or The Faculty (my preferred movies of the genre and era), it’s pretty middling. The story itself is pretty damned good, but the execution is off. Whilst it does a reasonable job building atmosphere, our main cast’s acting never delivers the goods, allowing the tension to fizzle out.

Incidental music is very similar to Hellraiser though. Doesn’t make the film any better, but I just wanted to point it out all the same.

Also, slightly odd to not simply see Sarah Michelle Gellar kick the snot out the bad guy.


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I Still Know What You Did Last Summer

And it’s somehow worse. It should perhaps be more accurately named I Don’t Care What You Did Ever.

I don’t think I could ever get over Mark Strong with hair.

Anyways…


Superman 2025

The one your dad heard was Super Woke.

We went for the Krypto and, dammit, this film delivered. My wife says it’s the best superhero movie ever and wants to see it again. For the good doggie.

The human parts were good, too, if you’re interested in that.

Oh yes, I'm sure it's "super woke" to people who are so incredibly afraid of the term that they use it a billion times a day and consider bees woke.

 Ensis Ferrae wrote:
Finished watching "The Siege of Jadotville"

Once you get past the utter weirdness that is Mark Strong with hair, it was a really good flick. Based on a true story, I definitely appreciated how the Irish comandant, and the FFL mercenary leader were played by dudes who actually have a passing resemblance to the person they're portraying.

Action sequences were, IMO, pretty well shot, the dialog and pacing was pretty good. All in all, a pretty good "original" offering by Netflix.

Given how much that all round defence is taught globally, there will be an odd but consistent audience for that film forever

I did think it was great. Can't remember, did it include the nugget that the Irish reckoned they could use Gaelic for encrypted comms, not realising their were plenty of other Irish around happy to translate for cash of the other factions?

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:

Superman 2025

The one your dad heard was Super Woke.

We went for the Krypto and, dammit, this film delivered. My wife says it’s the best superhero movie ever and wants to see it again. For the good doggie.

The human parts were good, too, if you’re interested in that.

I'll second this. Saw this Friday and found myself itching to see it again all weekend.